81-740/741 (Rusich, russian: Русич), is a type of

rolling stock The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can ...

specially designed for running under the harsh winter climate of outdoor

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. Rusich also features a corridor connection, allowing passenger access between the two sections of the cars. It was first designed for use on proposed light metro lines such as the Butovskaya line in Moscow (which ended up being the only light metro line built), being similar in nature to some high floor 2-segment articulated trams like the rolling stock of the Los Angeles Metro Rail, the

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, and Docklands Light Railway rolling stock in London. They are currently assigned to the metro lines including Sokolnicheskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Koltsevaya and Butovskaya lines of

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and lines M1, M2 and M4 of the

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. Four main types of Rusich rolling stock were manufactured. 81-740/741, 81-740.1/741.1; 81-740.4/741.4 which are used on the

and in

on the wide

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, the later having an extra door in the cabless segments. 81-740.2/741.2, 81-740.2B/741.2B is technically adapted and designed for

which uses standard gauge. Besides the

81-717/714 81-717/714 is a metro car designed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s. The cars were made from 1976 to 2010 by Metrovagonmash and the I. E. Yegorov Vagonmash factories of Mytishchi and Saint Petersburg, respectively. Production is still ongoing ...

and its derivatives/modifications, it is the only train made by

Metrowagonmash Metrowagonmash, also Metrovagonmash (russian: ОАО "Метровагонмаш", OAO "Metrovagonmash"), is an engineering company in Mytishchi, Russia. Metrowagonmash (MWM) is one of the leading enterprises in Russia operating in the ...

to be used outside the former USSR, in the

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, and to get a modification for a different track gauge. Its automatic train operation and universal control panel were designed by

Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design JSC V.V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (russian: ОАО «Научно-исследовательский институт приборостроения имени В.В.Тихомирова», russian: НИИП, ...

(NIIP).

External links

Official page of 81-740/741 Rusich, Metrowagonmash (English version)
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